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OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Editorial Board Rex W Adams Carroll Brentano Ray Cohig Steven Finacom J.R.K. Kantor Germaine LaBerge Ann Lage Kaarin Michaelsen Roberta J. Park William Roberts Janet Ruyle Volume 1 • Number 2 • Fall 1998 ^hfuj: The Chronicle of the University of California is published semiannually with the goal of present ing work on the history of the University to a scholarly and interested public. While the Chronicle welcomes unsolicited submissions, their acceptance is at the discretion of the editorial board. For further information or a copy of the Chronicle’s style sheet, please address: Chronicle c/o Carroll Brentano Center for Studies in Higher Education University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4650 E-mail [email protected] Subscriptions to the Chronicle are twenty-seven dollars per year for two issues. Single copies and back issues are fifteen dollars apiece (plus California state sales tax). Payment should be by check made to “UC Regents” and sent to the address above. The Chronicle of the University of California is published with the generous support of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Center for Studies in Higher Education, the Gradu ate Assembly, and The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California. Copyright Chronicle of the University of California. ISSN 1097-6604 Graphic Design by Catherine Dinnean. Original cover design by Maria Wolf. Senior Women’s Pilgrimage on Campus, May 1925. University Archives. CHRONICLE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA cHn ^ iL Fall 1998 LADIES BLUE AND GOLD Edited by Janet Ruyle CORA, JANE, & PHOEBE: FIN-DE-SIECLE PHILANTHROPY 1 J.R.K. Kantor HEARSTHALL........................................ ;............................................ 9 From the 1904 Blue and Gold “THE WANT MOST KEENLY FELT”: UNIVERSITY YWCA, THE EARLY YEARS...............................................................................................11 Dorothy Thelen Clemens A GYM OF THEIR OWN: WOMEN, SPORTS, AND PHYSICAL CULTURE AT THE BERKELEY CAMPUS, 1876-1976............................... 21 Roberta J. Park THE EARLY PRYTANEANS............................................................................... 49 Janet Ruyle GIRTON HALL: THE GIFT OF JULIA MORGAN.......................................57 Margaretta J. Damall DEAN LUCY SPRAGUE, THE PARTHENEIA, AND THE ARTS.............65 Janet Ruyle MAY CHENEYS CONTRIBUTION TO THE MODERN UNIVERSITY......75 Anne J. MacLachlan “NO MAN AND NO THING CAN STOP ME”: FANNIE McLEAN, WOMAN SUFFRAGE, AND THE UNIVERSITY...........................................83 Geraldine Jongich Clifford IDA LOUISE JACKSON, CLASS OF ’22 95 Roberta J. Park OTHER VOICES: GLIMPSES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN, CHINESE AMERICAN, AND JAPANESE AMERICAN STUDENTS AT BERKELEY, FROM THE 1920S TO THE MID-1950S................................99 FEW CONCERNS, FEWER WOMEN...............................................................107 Ray Colvig JOSEPHINE MILES................................................................................................ 121 Robert Brentano AGGIE WOMEN: THE UNIVERSITY AT DAVIS.............................................123 Beginnings at Berkeley “Women at the University Farm” Ann Foley Scheuring Between the Wars: The Coed Farmerettes A Davis Professor: Katherine Esau, “The Grande Dame of American Botany” YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BAMBINA! ...................................................... 127 Rose D. Scherini FACULTY WIVES: THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY SECTION CLUB............................................................................. 133 Mary Lee Noonan PORTRAIT OF HELEN WILLS.............................................................................140 THE COLLEGE GIRLS’ RECORD........................................................................ 141 NORTH GABLES: A BOARDINGHOUSE WITH A HEART............................145 Elizabeth Fine Ginsburg and Harriet Shapiro Rochlin 1942: LIGHTS AND DARKS...................................................................................151 Margaret Darling Evans Scholer CAL WOMEN IN MUSIC....................................................................................... 155 The Marching Band “We Don’t Have Any Women in This Band” Barbara Leonard Robben “Men, Women, and Song' Arville Knoche Finacom THE ORAL HISTORIES OF WOMEN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA........................................................................... 163 Ann Lage PUBLICATIONS NEW AND NOTEWORTHY................................................. 166 William Roberts REVIEWS ............................... ............................................................................... “Equally in View”: The University of California, Its Women, and the Schools by Geraldine Jongich Clifford Law at Berkeley: The History of Boalt Hall by Sandra Epstein Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era by Lynn D. Gordon The 4-Year Stretch by Florence Jury and Jacomena Maybeck Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists Edited by Kathryn P. Meadow Orlans and Ruth A.Wallace 920 O’Earrell Street: A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Erancisco by Harriet Lane Levy THE QIRL3 1904 Blue and Gold. CONTRIBUTORS REX W. ADAMS is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history at UC Berkeley. His academic focus is on the comparative history of higher education in Great Britain and the United States. CARROLL BRENTANO has a doctorate in architectural history from UC Berkeley, and has been coordinator of the University History Project in the Center for Studies in Higher Education for the past nine years. ROBERT BRENTANO is a professor of medieval history at UC Berkeley and currently chair of the Academic Senate. He has been teaching on this campus since 1952; he gave a Faculty Research Lecture in 1988. DOROTHY THELEN CLEMENS, a native of Berkeley, is a 1955 graduate of UC Berkeley and has been active in the YWCA since her student days. She and her professor-husband live in Berkeley where she teaches English as a second language. GERALDINE JONCICH CLIFFORD is a professor of the history of education with an interest in women’s social history and taught at UC Berkeley’s School of Education from 1962 to 1994. Since retirement she has been working on a book about women teachers in Ameri can history. RAY COLVIG, a Berkeley graduate, was public information officer for the campus from 1964 to 1991. He has coauthored two books with the late Glenn T. Seaborg and has written articles about the university during the 1960s. MARGARETTA J. DARNALL writes on architecture and landscape design. A Berkeley graduate in architecture, she completed graduate degrees in architectural history at Cornell University. ARVILLE KNOCHE FINACOM, formerly a teacher and journalist, now does public relations work for nonprofit groups and is a docent at a San Mateo museum and at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. She graduated from Berkeley, later earning teaching and administration credentials from the university. ELIZABETH FINE GINSBURG'worked for a New York publisher after graduating from. Berkeley and earned a master’s from'Columbia University in history and social science. She is a retired Los Angeles high schooF teacher and former trainer of teachers for California State University, Northridge. J. R. K. KANTOR served as University Archivist from 1964 to 1983. Since retirement he has been a curator of the Hall of Fame at Memorial Stadium, a museum of Cal’s athletic history. GERMAINE La BERGE is an editor and interviewer at the Regional Oral History Office. She has an A.B. in history, an M.A. in education, and is a member (inactive) of the State Bar of California. ANN LAGE is principal editor for the Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library where she conducts oral history interviews to document the history of the University. She has an A.B. and an M.A. in history from UC Berkeley. ANNE J. MacLACHLAN is a researcher at the Center for Studies in'Higher Education with interest in graduate education and placement, women and minorities in the academy, and faculty career and development issues. She has a Ph.D. in economic history. KAARIN MICHAELSEN is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, UC Berkeley. Her research interests include the history of science and medicine in modern Britain. MARY LEE NOONAN attended Wellesley as an undergraduate, earned her master’s degree from Radcliffe, and has been a Berkeley faculty wife since 1967. She served as president of the University Section Club during the academic year 1992-93. ROBERTA J. PARK is a Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, and former chair (1982-92) of the Department of Human Biodynamics. Her A.B. and Ph.D. degrees are from Berkeley. BARBARA LEONARD ROBBEN graduated from Cal in 1960. She still lives in Berkeley and continues to be interested in music and “running around the hills.” WILLIAM ROBERTS is University Archivist since 1984; he has been on the Berkeley campus as student and employee since 1961. HARRIET SHAPIRO ROCHLIN, a native of Los Angeles who graduated from Berkeley in Hispanic studies, has been a full-time writer since 1967. Her books in print include two novels and a social history of pioneer Jews. JANET RUYLE, a Berkeley graduate, joined the research staff at the Center for Studies in Higher Education in 1960, working on a variety of projects. She was Assistant Director of the Center from 1976 to 1993. ROSE D. SCHERINI has a doctorate in educational anthropology from